Marketing Search: An Interview with Pete Bell of Endeca and Gabriel Weinberg of DuckDuckGo
by Brett Bonfield As it turns out, librarians aren’t the only ones competing with Google. In fact, we’re not even the only ones offering an... Read More
Librarians as __________: Shapeshifting at the periphery.
When we first started introducing guest posts, Char Booth was a name mentioned by many of us at ItLwtLP. As a blogger over at info-mational,... Read More
Tryin’ to Get My Mojo Workin’
Muddy Waters, can you help me get my mojo working? by Emily Ford I have a problem. Several months ago I realized I’d lost my... Read More
The Fiske Report
by Ellie Collier Introduction I have a soft spot in my heart for library history. I credit my library history classes for making me the... Read More
My Maverick Bar: A Search for Identity and the “Real Work” of Librarianship
by Kim Leeder Summer Interlude Three years, twenty committees, twelve hundred instruction sessions, forty thousand monograph purchases, and half a million reference questions later, I’m... Read More
Fantasy Pricing – An Interview with Selden Lamoureux
by Selden Lamoureux and Hilary Davis When I asked Selden Lamoureux, Electronic Serials Librarian at the North Carolina State University Libraries, “what are the most... Read More
What your donors (and would-be donors) wish you knew
by Brett Bonfield A few months back, someone emailed In the Library with the Lead Pipe asking if we could recommend an online course that... Read More
Editorial: Conference this! Lead Pipers compare conference experiences
As library travel budgets are increasingly slashed around the country, it’s a tough time for conference-going. In this group post, we compare notes about the... Read More
Making Connections: YAAN as a Paper Blog?
by Cindy Welch Brooke Shields is a descendant of Louis XIV; Emmett Smith is seven percent Native American; and Matthew Broderick’s ancestor fought at Gettysburg.... Read More
Making it their idea: The Learning Cycle in library instruction
by Eric Frierson Librarians are always struggling to convince someone of something: convincing voters to say ‘yes’ to a library bond; persuading a library director... Read More